Personal health care records aggregation

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention provide for personal health care records aggregation. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for personal health care records aggregation is provided. The method includes storing in a database, different health care records pertaining to different patients and acquiring from a pervasive device of one of the patients, an observational record pertaining to a subjective observation of the one of the patients. The method further includes date stamping the health care records and the observational record. Thereafter, an identifier of the one of the patients is received from over a computer communications network and, in response, an aggregated personal health care record of the one of the patients that includes a date sorted view of ones of the different health care records pertaining to the one of the patients and also the observational record of the one of the patients, is transmitted to a health care provider.

I claim: 
     
         1 . A method for personal health care records aggregation, the method comprising:
 storing in a database, different health care records pertaining to different patients;   acquiring from a pervasive device of one of the patients, an observational record pertaining to a subjective observation of the one of the patients;   date stamping the health records and the observational record;   receiving an identifier of the one of the patients from over a computer communications network; and   transmitting to a health care provider in response to the receipt of the identifier, an aggregated personal health care record of the one of the patients including a date sorted view of ones of the different health care records pertaining to the one of the patients and also the observational record of the one of the patients.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the identifier is disposed in a bar code. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the bar code is affixed to a tab attached to an article of clothing of the one of the patients. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the observational record is an expression by the one of the patients of how the one of the patient feels. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the observational record is acquired as speech presented through the pervasive device and speech recognized into text constituting the observational record. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the observational record is an expression by the one of the patients of a food eaten by the one of the patients. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the observational record is an expression by the one of the patients of an activity performed by the one of the patients. 
     
     
         8 . A health care records data processing system configured for personal health care records aggregation, the system comprising:
 a host computing system comprising one or more computers each with memory and at least one processor;   a data store coupled to the host computing system; and,   an aggregation module executing in the memory of the host computing system, the module comprising program code enabled upon execution in the memory of the host computing system to store in the data store, different health care records pertaining to different patients, to acquire from a pervasive device of one of the patients from over a computer communications network coupled to the host computing system, an observational record pertaining to a subjective observation of the one of the patients, to date stamp the health care records and the observational record, to receive from over the computer communications network an identifier of the one of the patients, and to transmit to a health care provider in response to the receipt of the identifier, an aggregated personal health care record of the one of the patients including a date sorted view of ones of the different health care records pertaining to the one of the patients and also the observational record of the one of the patients.   
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 8 , wherein the identifier is disposed in a bar code. 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 8 , wherein the bar code is affixed to a tab attached to an article of clothing of the one of the patients. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 8 , wherein the observational record is an expression by the one of the patients of how the one of the patient feels. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 8 , wherein the observational record is an expression by the one of the patients of a food eaten by the one of the patients. 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 8 , wherein the observational record is an expression by the one of the patients of an activity performed by the one of the patients. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 7 , wherein the information pertaining to the activity of the one of the patients is acquired by location determination logic disposed within the pervasive device. 
     
     
         15 . A computer program product for personal health care records aggregation, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to perform a method comprising:
 storing in a database, different health care records pertaining to different patients;   acquiring from a pervasive device of one of the patients, an observational record pertaining to a subjective observation of the one of the patients;   date stamping the health care records and the observational record;   receiving an identifier of the one of the patients from over a computer communications network; and   transmitting to a health care provider in response to the receipt of the identifier, an aggregated personal health care record of the one of the patients including a date sorted view of ones of the different health care records pertaining to the one of the patients and also the observational record of the one of the patients.   
     
     
         16 . The computer program product of  claim 15 , wherein the identifier is disposed in a bar code. 
     
     
         17 . The computer program product of  claim 15 , wherein the bar code is affixed to a tab attached to an article of clothing of the one of the patients. 
     
     
         18 . The computer program product of  claim 15 , wherein the observational record is an expression by the one of the patients of how the one of the patient feels. 
     
     
         19 . The computer program product of  claim 15 , wherein the observational record of the one of the patients is acquired as speech dictation presented through the pervasive device and speech recognized into text constituting the observational record. 
     
     
         20 . The computer program product of  claim 15 , wherein the observational record is an expression by the one of the patients of food eaten by the one of the patients.